$ ldd /usr/bin/xsane|grep not
libnetsnmp.so.25 => not found
libv4l1.so.0 => not found
libgphoto2.so.2 => not found
libgphoto2_port.so.0 => not found
libv4l1.so.0 => not found
libieee1284.so.3 => not found
libgphoto2.so.2 => not found
libgphoto2_port.so.0 => not found
libltdl.so.7 => not found
libnetsnmp.so.25 => not found

And yet again the hunt for these starts anew. *sigh*

What is the best way to find the missing dependencies? Me thinks I can better my approach when it comes to that.

I used, as most of the time, http://pkgs.org to get the txz, but sadly it not lists dependencies...

When I'm resolving deps manually, I search pkgs.org through google, with a string like 'libgphoto2 site:pkgs.org' or 'libgphoto2 slackware site:pkgs.org'. This searches all text on the page, rather than the package name and description (which is what the search function built into pkgs.org does).

This shows the following packages contain the libs mentioned above:

net-snmp
v4l-utils
libgphoto2
libieee1284

It's odd that slackyd didn't pick these up, they are in the official Slackware repo. Did you run 'slackyd -u' first, to update it?

You could also try building this through PPM, using the slackware page. Hope that helps

Please take a look at our online documentation, here. Suggestions are welcome!

I think there is a sbopkg feature in brokenman's PPM. Maybe you could use it to build xsane with modules.

francois wrote:Once you get xsane packed up, I will be happy to use it. Maybe it should be available in standard porteus modules.

Ahau wrote:When I'm resolving deps manually, I search pkgs.org through google, with a string like 'libgphoto2 site:pkgs.org' or 'libgphoto2 slackware site:pkgs.org'. This searches all text on the page, rather than the package name and description (which is what the search function built into pkgs.org does).

Had no idea pkgs.org does it like that. Yay! again for search-fu skills and google hacks.

Ahau wrote:It's odd that slackyd didn't pick these up, they are in the official Slackware repo. Did you run 'slackyd -u' first, to update it?

Nope, I went straight for the txz converting them into xzm. Usually that works well.

You could also try building this through PPM, using the slackware page. Hope that helps

Never did that. Maybe I will look in to that. Cause there is also Gslapt and Crunchbang, like francois mentioned. I will see which of the techniques suits my needs (and laziness) best.

Sorry, folks, me was busy aside from Porteus, so I got nothing done with xsane or any of the other things. (And now I have to get firefox updated to 13.0 as well.... and don't find any slackware repository for that)

But if anyone wants to try get sane and xsane to run, feel free to send me an PM.

Good news. I got xsane working on porteus 32bit. As soon as I can I will report the way that I did it and even provide eventually with a module. Xsane works on its own, but it is also integrated in libreoffice and should also work from within gimp. I should get the post done by tomorrow.